Nice blog entry by the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson…

Today Tony Blair claimed that the deportation of foreign prisoners was not a problem his government had created – but one that they were solving. (“Oh that’s alright then” I hear you cry). Having airily dismissed his failure to implement his old policy, he turned to the future and pledged to introduce a new one. A change of the law will mean that the working assumption will be that all foreign criminals will be deported whatever their crime rather than – as now – merely considered for deportation if their sentence is longer.

Just like Margaret Thatcher before him, Tony Blair has the ability to ask what on earth the government is up to – like a caller to a radio phone-in – and then promise to sort it out…